Chapter 6 Vocabulary

This vocabulary word is the Document written to declare the American colonies as an independent nation, free from British rule.

• Common Sense

• petition

• independence

• Declaration of Independence

What word means a formal, written request made to an official person or organization?

• Common Sense

• Declaration of Independence

• petition

• natural rights.

What is freedom from control by another government or country?

• independence

• natural rights

• Common Sense

• strategy

What is a pamphlet published in 1776 by Thomas Paine that persuaded many American colonists to support Independence?

• Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

• natural rights

• American Revolution

What are rights common to everyone, as opposed to those given by law?

• natural rights

• independence

• petition

• Common Sense

What was the struggle of the colonies in North American to gain their independence from Great Britian?

• Continental Army

• Declaration of Independence

• American Revolution

• ally

What was the American army during the American Revolution called?

• American Revolution

• Common Sense

• Continental Army

• ally

What is an overall pan, such as for winning a war?

• independence

• petition

• ally

• strategy

What i a nation that joins another nation in some common effort, such as fighting a war called?

• ally

• strategy

• natural rights

• petition